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Desert Orchid

Desert Orchid

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Is anyone else experience annoying picture disturbance on some Freeview channels? It seems to me to be getting worse, as if they're cutting back on signal strength or something. Never seemed to be a problem before.

Also, have they stopped broadcasting Sky News and Sky Sports News on Freeview? I was watching them yesterday but today I'm getting a message saying invalid DVB channel :blink:
 
How old is your dish?

I started getting the same problem with certain stations and it was becoming more frequent. I was advised to replace the part that sits on a short stalk in front of the dish (LNB?) because after years of exposure to the elements (my dish was nine years old) moisture can get into them and cause problems. Reception is now back to normal.
 
I don't have a dish. I don't have satellite. This is the built-in Freeview that I receive via the aerial. We have two Freeview TVs in the house. One is receiving the Freeview Sky stations fine, the other isn't. Weird.

Could it be something to do with the quality of the scart cables or coaxial cables? I'll try and get up the loft next weekend and see if the aerial connections have worked their way loose.

Also, does anybody use plug-in signal boosters in rooms? Do they work well? I just wonder if they would compensate for any lack of strength in incoming signals.
 
We have bad problems here with Freeview - used to get it and now don't. Ariel man here as we speak as we have had no tv for 2 weeks now - berludy nightmare! we had gone out and bought a new small tv for the kitchen plus signal booster which Argos swore would work only to be told just now that we won't get Freeview here again until April at the earliest!
 
Desert Orchid said:
I don't have a dish. I don't have satellite. This is the built-in Freeview that I receive via the aerial. We have two Freeview TVs in the house. One is receiving the Freeview Sky stations fine, the other isn't. Weird.

Could it be something to do with the quality of the scart cables or coaxial cables? I'll try and get up the loft next weekend and see if the aerial connections have worked their way loose.

Also, does anybody use plug-in signal boosters in rooms? Do they work well? I just wonder if they would compensate for any lack of strength in incoming signals.
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seems odd that one picks up ok..aerial must be ok then

I would be looking at a fault with the inbuilt freeview box if you have only just got the problem.

one thing to try..borrow an external freeview box from someone and try it on the TV you are having probs with

never tried boosters..I get mine off a loft aerial which is donkeys years old..we must have a good signal
 
Retuned the TV last night to no avail. Tried again tonight and the Sky stations came back. Weird.

Picture quality is still iffy on a number of channels. According to the telly, signal quality on the channels coming through via the BBC signal is 10/10, other stations are coming through at 8, 5, 4 & 3. The analogue picture is not great on the telly either yet is fine on the portables.

Next port of call the loft...
 
Desert Orchid said:
Next port of call the loft...
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I foutered about with the cables - there are 13 coaxial cables going into a couple of booster boxes - and realised I must have dislodged one the last time I was trying to get a free cable for the new telly in the extension. Once I'd checked them all the digital picture was fine. Mind you, the analogue picture isn't as good as it used to be before we had freeview.
 
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